Trivia sounds highly appropriate, though we should also have in-universe example and examples where the creator discussed it or articles about the phenomenon. (I'm pretty sure this happened with Katamari at some point and there are definitely some on FPS sites where people start thinking about how they would deathmatch in real buildings..)

If there are some Trivia examples that we want to list and some In-Universe examples that we also want to list, a soft-split would be the way to go, probably.

However, I don't think this is trivia. The CSI Effect is about fictional depiction of crime bleeding into the justice system; I'm okay with that being trivia. But The Tetris Effect is a much more personal reaction that happens inside an individual's brain, and that spells Audience Reaction for me. (Which could still have the same soft-split, of course.) When The CSI Effect happens, you see it on the news, but when The Tetris Effect happens, it's pretty close to Troper Tales.

Incidentally, the In-Universe version seems like it should be related to Meat-O-Vision. Is there a missing supertrope there?

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